| sshier 2006-02-10, 3:01 am |
| Thanks Jeff. Very informative reply. This confirms what I was thinking. I
will use BizTalk. Do I need to use BizTalk 2006? I'm not sure about whether
to use 2006 or 2004 because I am targeting a June deployment -very tight time
frame. Do you know when 2006 is supposed to be released? Is Commerce Server
2006 still supposed to be released in March 2006?
We will deal with the connection between the ERP and Commerce Server by
reading and writing XML files from/to BizTalk from the ERP's SQL 2005.
I have done an Amazon integration before but not with their web service. I
will use BizTalk for this as well.
Thanks,
Steve
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Steve Shier
"Jeff Lynch" wrote:
> Thess questions might be better posted to the CS2006 beta newsgroup but here
> is a brief answer to most of them.
>
> "In my Commerce Server 2006 deployment, I will need to have real time (or
> near real time-say every 5 minutes) integration of inventory, orders and
> customers with a back end ERP system."
>
> There are several ways to accomplish this level of "near real-time"
> integration given that your ERP system sits on a SQL Server 2005 db. The
> first and probably the most "cost effective" (in my opinion) would be to use
> the new BizTalk Adapters that ship with CS2006 along with BizTalk Server
> 2006 to perform these "integrations" between your ERP system and your CS2006
> system. This is exactly the scenario these adapters were designed for BUT
> integrating into an ERP system also requires the ERP system be "capable" of
> supporting this. CS2006 will include adapters to bi-directionally integrate
> orders, order status, catalog, inventory and profile (customers, companies,
> addresses, etc.) information through BizTalk Server 2006. Each adapter uses
> Web Services to query or submit this data to and from CS2006.
>
> "To save time and money, I would like to avoid having to custom hand code
> every piece of this project. We are willing to purchase BizTalk 2006 or any
> other reasonably priced product if that will help with the integration."
>
> While Commerce Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2006 provide a great
> E-Commerce and Integration framework, you will still need a developer to
> write some code (web pages, custom classes, BizTalk schemas, maps, custom
> SQL stored procedures, etc.) to put this all together, depending upon the
> complexity of your scenario and the capabilities of your ERP system. You'll
> also need to spend some development time developing your catalog "schema" in
> order to display products on your site in an efficient manner. This is
> usually one of the most difficult development tasks.
>
> "Also, has anyone developed integration between Amazon and MSCS 2006?"
>
> I haven't seen this but I do know that Amazon offers a web service for
> integration purposes and writing the code to take advantage of this is
> pretty straight forward.
>
> I hope this answers some of your questions. If you haven't already done so,
> sign up for the CS2006 beta BTS2006 beta and have your developers take a
> look at what's currently available.
>
> --
> Jeff Lynch
> "Ramblings From A [Microsoft] Connected Universe"
> http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch
>
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